商品簡介
In the late nineteenth century in Europe, and to some extent in the United States, the Jewish upper middle class—particularly the more affluent families—began to enter the cultural spheres of public life, especially in major cities such as Vienna, Berlin, Paris, New York, and London. While many aspects of society were closed to them, theater,?the visual arts,?music, and art publication were far more inviting, especially if they involved challenging aspects of modernity that might be less attractive to Gentile society. Jewish cultural activities and aspirations form the focus of the contributions to this volume. Invited authors include senior figures in the field such as Matthew Baigell and Emily Bilski, alongside authors of a younger generation such as Daniel Magilow and Marcie Kaufman. There is also an essay by noted Los Angeles artist and photographer Bill Aron.?The guest editor of the volume, Ruth Weisberg, provides an Introduction that places the individual contributions in context.
作者簡介
Ruth Weisberg is an artist, a professor of fine arts, and former dean at the Roski School, University of Southern California. She received the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s semicentennial Jewish Cultural Achievement Award in 2011, and has been the recipient of many other awards and recognitions. She has had over eighty solo and 185 group exhibitions, including a recent major exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and a retrospective at the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles. Her work is included in sixty major museum collections including those of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris; the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Norwegian National Museum in Oslo; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the National Gallery in Washington, DC; and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
